Visiting the Past Series

Visiting the Past Roman Forum & Colosseum paperback

Published 24 July 2003

This visually stunning series focuses on world heritage sites, representative of different eras, peoples, places and historical events. The reader is given a narrative tour of each site to discover what can be learned from the surviving evidence - why and how the place was built, the daily lives of the people who lived there and the surviving evidence that can help us to reconstruct the place when it was in use. The series is: - extensive, specially commissioned photography - a complete ground plan of each site - a summary of key dates - a glossary and index